14 DAY TRIAL // Chrissy Teigen is a gorgeous Sports Illustrated model with a body most women would love to have but, as it turns out, she too gets bullied for gaining some weight. Even worse, it happens quite a lot, she tells People magazine.
Chrissy has always been very open about her love of good food and how that makes her modeling job a bit more difficult because of the extra effort she has to put in to get camera-ready. She is also very outspoken on body image and the importance of accepting your body, flaws included.
Being human and all, Chrissy too tends to gain a few pounds whenever she’s in between jobs and not once has it happened to her to receive nasty comments on social media about how she’s “porking” up. Most of the times, she just laughs them off; others she engages those who post them, hoping to tell them how wrong it is that they’re doing it.
Then there are those times when she allows these comments to hurt her.
“The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the [expletive] cares? Like if somebody tells me, ‘Oh, you look curvier.’ That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss,” Chrissy tells the celebrity publication.
“It's horrible we can be like, ‘You look so skinny,’ and someone's like, ‘Thank you!’ That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting. It's funny to me, but sometimes when you're having a bad day, it's hurtful. You just never know,” she continues.
Just recently, a very hurt and upset Chrissy took to Twitter to respond to people who had left her comments about how she’d gotten “fat” and how badly she needed to go on a diet. Now, even with a few pounds extra, there is no chance on earth anyone could look at this woman and describe her as such; yet it happens.
She also underlined how social media made bullying much easier, because no one in their right mind would dare to walk up to a woman or a man in real life, just to tell them that they were fat.
Having probably realized that engaging the bullies directly won’t have too much of a result, Chrissy is using her star-power to speak to women directly through the media, while pointing out how twisted our world has become, to allow us to consider “skinny” a compliment and “curvy” an offense.